Tuesday Photo Challenge – Promise

The spring came late this year. The winter rain kept the sun away when the plum trees needed the warmth to bring out the blossoms. Regardless, the hard-working bees pollinated the blossoms as much as they could. It looks like the trees promise a fruitful harvest in the summer. The top right photo is apples and the bottom right is plums.

Just thought that I could relax to look forward to the harvest, I found out that the homeless and hungry cat has eaten three mourning doves in my backyard. The doves are not very alert. The cat hid behind the flowers and dashed out to the doves. I’m heart-broken and try to do my best to fence in some area for the birds. He’s behind a gate my neighbor installed to keep the dog in their yeard. The cat is flexible to go through any tiny area to get into my yard.

Aww, I’m sorry about the doves. ❤ We have a new stray cat hanging around here as well whom I've seen go after birds. (Looks similar to yours.) I make noise when I see her stalking a bird to scare the bird away. The other day, she had something in her mouth, and she took it with her. I didn't want to know what it was. But at the same time, I love cats and want to adopt all I see, haha. So I understand your confliction there. 🙂

I’ve learned a lot. Will organize my note. The last workshop was about magazine writing. There are a lot of Christian magazines call for submissions. I’ll send you the links see if you’re interested. Some are topical, devotion, crafts, and many more. For devotion, Old Testament is most needed. 🙂

I love your. Sammi Cox is doing another Anthology from her first year’s writing prompts. But everyone is welcome. You just writing according to the prompt guidelines. It’s due July 1. You submit 5 out of 52 prompts. I’m sending you the post. You click “index” to get the 52 prompts. 🙂

She is flexible. If your internet is up again, go ahead and send in the submission and tell her why it’s late, and say that if she can’t include the late submission, you would understand. 🙂
I entered one poem loner than the prompt called for, I explained, and she included it. ❤

Oh, Miriam, I’m so glad you shared this for #ForgivingFridays – thank you! I really get your sadness for these little doves, and also your caring and conflict about the cat. Sometimes life is not clear cut, is it? I’m sending Light and love to you, to your decisions with this, and to all these animals for the highest good. You are such a gem. Much love! Debbie
ps – I’ll share your post this Friday. Blessings Miriam!!

Thank you Robbye. Yes, the cat hasn’t come around for the last few day since I fenced on one side of the sloop where the cat comes in. He has been around for a long time, I hope he finds food somehow.
Blessings to you.

Yes, I know. Other small birds such as finches and sparrows are on guard all the time. I notices one mourning dove had a ring on his right leg. Someone had capture him and tried to track him. He and the partner came back to my yard beginning of the season. They chose elsewhere to build their nest and I don’t see them anymore the last few months. The dove that come might be their offspring.

How sad for the little doves. How sad for the little cat to be homeless and hungry too. I guess he’s just doing what cats do. Unfortunately, cats do a lot of damage to our wildlife in Australia, wiping some native species out. It is sometimes more difficult to feel compassion for them en masse than it is for individual cats.

I understand and sense the conflict in me. I almost want to feed the cat, but afraid to bring the cat even closer to my yard.
We just watched the video about elephants and conflicting with human endeavor of growing rice. Elephants were searching for food and gobble down the crops.

Yes, I made one last effort to build the fence and check for the last three days if there were any new feathers. So far so good. The cat may catch birds from other yard. I put my head in the sand. The cat survives, and the birds in my yard survive, so far. It was hard for me to watch the nature videos when the baby animals are the target of predictors. Yes, I do realize it happens every day in the wild.

About me

Miriam Hurdle grew up in Hong Kong where she went to college and worked for five years before coming to the United States. While in Hong Kong, she taught Chinese as a Second Language in Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong for three years. She was also the Director of Children’s Department at the Asian Outreach where she published four Chinese Children’s books.
Miriam Hurdle came to the United States for her graduate studies. She received her master’s degrees in Christian Ministry from Portland Seminary, Counseling from Seattle Pacific University, and Education Administration from California State University, Los Angles. After teaching in California public school for fifteen years, she was promoted to a school district administrative position. She went on to do the postgraduate studies and earned her Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from La Verne University in California. Dr. Hurdle continued in her administrative position for ten years before her retirement.
In her retired life, Dr. Hurdle enjoys doing volunteer counseling, reading, writing, blogging, singing, drawing, watercolor painting, gardening, photographing, and traveling. Dr. Hurdle is married to Lynton Hurdle and has one married daughter and one granddaughter.